{"product_id":"moonstone-adjustable-ring","title":"The Edge of the Moon — Moonstone Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt came back because it was the only stone that behaved like weather.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParis, around 1900. For roughly twenty years, the most expensive jewellery in Europe was made largely out of materials that were not expensive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRené Lalique and the Art Nouveau workshops had decided that the diamond trade had made jewellery boring — a competition about carats, judged like an auction. So they used horn. Glass. Enamel. And moonstone, constantly, because it did the one thing a diamond cannot: it changes while you look at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA diamond is a fixed performance. It is brilliant in the same way every time, from every angle, forever. Moonstone drifts. The blue moves across it as you turn, weakest here, gathering there, never repeating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a movement obsessed with things that grow and turn and are not symmetrical, that was the whole argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fashion died with the First World War, as most beautiful and unserious things did. Moonstone went quiet for fifty years. Then the 1960s took it back for entirely different reasons, and it has not gone away since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt came back because it was the only stone that behaved like weather.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one is adjustable — an honest, useful ring rather than a ceremonial one. Wear it on the index finger this month and the ring finger next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should say plainly what adjustable costs you: it is not a ring to keep opening and closing for years, and it will not hold a very precise fit forever. What it buys you is that it always fits somewhere, and you do not need to have measured anything before you order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver. Made after you order it, up to twenty days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e£129 at launch, £139 after.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural moonstone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdjustable band — no size needed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order, up to 20 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKept for centuries for rest and for returning. Some people feel something. Some don't. If you don't, it is still the stone that beat the diamond in Paris for twenty years.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49038645592234,"sku":"ASI8-MOO-009","price":139.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/p09a.jpg?v=1786491298","url":"https:\/\/asieight.com\/products\/moonstone-adjustable-ring","provider":"Asi8","version":"1.0","type":"link"}